What's the difference between flung and throw?

Flung


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Fling
  • () imp. & p. p. of Fling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Finally, it examines Brancheau's death, which played out in front of a crowd, many of whom did not fully understand what was going on as the experienced trainer was dragged under water and flung around the tank.
  • (2) Smith did his stint in a far-flung corner of the oil empire, as all ambitious Shell employees are required to do, spending four and a half years in Malaysia and Brunei along with spells in the Middle East and the US and as head of technology at Shell Chemicals.
  • (3) Sustained funding has overhauled the tube while Crossrail, Europe’s biggest infrastructure project, promises to spur regeneration in far-flung corners of town.
  • (4) Beneath the charm, Coleridge, a former British Press Awards young journalist of the year who was flung in jail briefly in Sri Lanka after reporting on the Tamil Tigers, is a sharp operator.
  • (5) Barton then flung a half-hearted elbow at Tevez's chin or chest and the City player went down ridiculously easily.
  • (6) Ibrahimovic won a penalty five minutes before half-time but Peter Jehle flung himself to his right to save the spot-kick.
  • (7) Nolito played Fàbregas in just after the restart and he was felled by Oleksandr Kucher but Pyatov flung out an arm to send the midfielder’s spot kick over the bar.
  • (8) To see the doctor, governor, probation officer … cell doors are flung open with regularity.
  • (9) Her newspaper profiles over the years are peppered with self-deprecating references to her sporting ruthlessness: her constant mentions of her selfishness and egotism; her win-at-all-costs, only-gold-medals-matter mentality; or the time she flung her helmet at her boyfriend in frustration after losing a race.
  • (10) Indeed, for years the special rate for far-flung Greek islands was considered untouchable.
  • (11) Rosberg flung it back, without the flicker of a smile.
  • (12) Ronson admits that sometimes, when he is on an aeroplane flying to yet another far-flung destination, he finds himself thinking about death.
  • (13) Even here, there seems to be little desire, or knowledge, of how people will uproot themselves when the doors to countries like Britain are finally flung open.
  • (14) Many of the inmates in the far-flung penal colonies in which they were incarcerated were serving time for drug-related crimes.
  • (15) Butsuch comments remind me of those flung at my father, whose family was killed by the Nazis in Yugoslavia.
  • (16) His willingness to fight in such far-flung locales as Zaire, Manila, and Malaysia signalled a shift away from superpower dominance towards a growing awareness of the importance of the developing world.
  • (17) Hodgson, his side trailing to Gareth Bale’s long-range, first-half free-kick, had boldly flung on Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at the interval with both strikers scoring as his side kickstarted their campaign by vaulting to the top of the group.
  • (18) There is chance the words "47%" are not going to be flung at him this time.
  • (19) The first participants, who must all be aged under 24, are expected to travel to far-flung communities in the developing world to take part in projects in the months before Christmas.
  • (20) This had been such a grind, a test of patience as much as quality, against admirably resolute opponents who flung down a four-man barrier of centre-halves supplemented by workaholic wingers who plugged the full-back areas whenever they were denied the ball.

Throw


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
  • (n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
  • (n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
  • (v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
  • (v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
  • (v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
  • (v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
  • (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
  • (v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
  • (v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
  • (v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
  • (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
  • (v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
  • (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
  • (n.) A stroke; a blow.
  • (n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
  • (n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
  • (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
  • (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
  • (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
  • (n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
  • (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) The London Olympics delivered its undeniable panache by throwing a large amount of money at a small number of people who were set a simple goal.
  • (3) When you’ve got a man with a longer jab, you can’t throw single shots.
  • (4) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (5) Marie Johansson, clinical lead at Oxford University's mindfulness centre , stressed the need for proper training of at least a year until health professionals can teach meditation, partly because on rare occasions it can throw up "extremely distressing experiences".
  • (6) Standing as he explains the book's take-home point, Miliband recalls the author Michael Lewis's research showing that a quarter-back is the most highly paid player, but because they throw with their right arm they can often be floored by an attacker from their blindside.
  • (7) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
  • (8) Israel has complained in recent weeks of an increase in stone throwing and molotov cocktail attacks on West Bank roads and in areas adjoining mainly Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, where an elderly motorist died after crashing his car during an alleged stoning attack.
  • (9) When you score a hat trick in the first 16 minutes of a World Cup Final with tens of millions of people watching across the world, essentially ending the match and clinching the tournament before most players worked up a sweat or Japan had a chance to throw in the towel, your status as a sports legend is forever secure – and any favorable comparisons thrown your way are deserved.
  • (10) Masood’s car struck her, throwing her into the river.
  • (11) Schools should adopt whole-school approaches to building emotional resilience – everyone from the dinner ladies to the headteacher needs to understand how to help young people to cope with what the modern world throws at them.
  • (12) Climate change is also high on protesters’ and politicians’ agendas, and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, called for the industrial powers to throw their weight behind a longstanding pledge to seek $100bn (£65bn) to help poor countries tackle climate change, agreed in Copenhagen in 2009.
  • (13) In principle, the more turns and throws the stronger the knot.
  • (14) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
  • (15) But that Monday night, I went to bed and decided to throw my hat in the ring."
  • (16) This regulation not only guarantees the suppression of overproduction of RNA polymerase subunits but also throws light on the problem of how the syntheses of RNA polymerase and ribosome respond similarly to the shift of nutrients and temperature, but differently to the starvation for amino acids.
  • (17) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
  • (18) Edu was tried out there in practice midweek... 2.18am GMT 6 mins Costa Rica get forward for the first time and have a throw deep in US territory.
  • (19) But whenever Garcia throws a left hook Matthysse really looks like he has no idea it's coming.
  • (20) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.

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